Preparing for AI: everything AI through a China-US lens
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Send us Fan Mail A top-tier AI model appears, gets jailbroken, and then disappears within 96 hours. That single arc tells you almost everything about where frontier AI is heading: safety is messy, the economics are frantic, and governments are no longer pretending they are spectators. We break down the Anthropic Fable 5 ban, the reported US national security concerns, and the awkward reality that “you can’t use it” often becomes the loudest policy argument. From there, we get practical about why guardrails still feel so crude. If a model blocks harmless work because it spots the word “cyber”, or refuses to read documents because they might contain risky material, then the industry is shipping incredible capability with constraint systems that are still closer to blunt filters than dependable AI safety engineering. We also talk about the commercial side: IPO pressure, circular financing, and why the race to outdo OpenAI can collide head-on with regulation. Then we widen the lens to the global response. Argentina floats a plan to never regulate AI and even proposes a new corporate category for agent-run “non-human corporations”. Europe moves in the opposite direction with a renewe